Overview

Transcendentalism:
A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.

Main Ideas
  • Simplicity
  • Natural
  • Self-reliance
  • Individuality

They also pushed to be anti-religous. They wanted there people to reject this because they need to find god within themselves.